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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. N« 40., Oct. 4. '56. 



And hear him joking at the Spring, 



While 3'ou (his subjects) Tribute bring, 



This, with the Wafers you are quaffing. 



Will make you hurst yourselves with Laughing." 



During the period of Dicky's celebrity his face 

 •was often carved upon walking-sticks, and Peck, 

 the antiquary (who was fond of a joke), is said, to 

 have had one remarkably like him. E. 



Your correspondent A is informed that he will 

 find a full account of Dicky Dickinson in Caul- 

 field's Remai-kable Persons, with a full-length en- 

 graving of his elegant form. 



IIenkt Kensington. 



SOBSLETS "COLLECTION OF POEMS. 



(2°^S. i. 151.237.) 



The following Note on the first and second 

 editions of Dodsleys Collection drawn up by 

 a friend who compared my copy of the fii'st 

 edition with his of the second, deserves to be re- 

 corded for the information which it furnishes re- 

 specting the most popular poetical miscellany ever 

 published in England : — 



" This is the first edition of Dodshy's famous 

 Collection of Poems. It was published in the 

 month of January, 1748, 'three pocket volumes,' 

 price 9*. In the same year appeared a second 

 edition, also in three volumes, but with consider- 

 able additions and some omissions of poems, pro- 

 bably thought unworthy of a place here. The 

 poems omitted were : 1. The Art of Cookery. 

 2. An Imitation of Horace's Invitation to Tor- 

 quatus. 3. The Old Cheese. 4. The Skillets 

 5. The Fisherman. 6. Little Mouths. 7. Hold 

 Fast Below. 8. The Incurious (all by Dr. King). 

 9. The Apparition (by Dr. Evans). 10. The 

 Wrongheads : and, 11. The Happy Man. None 

 of these were ever reprinted in Dodsley. Among 

 the most remarkable additions to the second 

 edition were some of the Odes of Collins, which 

 were published by Millar in December, 1746 

 (dated 1747), and here reprinted for the first time 

 with considerable variations. In order to enable 

 purchasers of the first edition to complete their 

 copies, a fourth, thin, volume was published in 

 the following year, which contains all the pieces 

 which were in the second, but not in the first 

 edition, and no others. Gray sneered at the 

 ' Three Graces ' in the frontispiece, and in the 

 second edition Dodsley substituted for them the 

 allegorical vignette which appears in all the sub- 

 sequent editions. The fourth, supplementary, 

 volume of 1749, however, has the 'Graces' to 

 correspond with the three volumes of the edition 

 ■which it was intended to complete. The Col- 



lection was afterwards enlarged to four volumes. 

 A '■fourth edition,' in four volumes, appeared in 

 1755. In 1758 an edition was published in six 

 volumes, containing further additions. In this 

 number of volumes it was frequently reprinted ; 

 but I have seen a mention of an edition in seven 

 vols. \2mo. of 1770. The latest edition I am 

 aware of is that of 1782, in six vols. 8vo. There 

 was published in 1768, ' A Collection of Poems, 

 being two additional volumes to Mr. Dodsley's 

 Collection ; ' but whether by Dodsley's successor, 

 I know not. A copy of this is in the Grenville 

 Library, British Museum, and in the Bodleian. 

 Dodsley's Collection enjoyed a greater popularity 

 than was ever attained by any other publication 

 of the kind. Gray speaks of it in 1751 as the 

 'Magazine of Magazines.' The first edition is 

 now scarce, and the ' Three Graces ' rarely seen. 



" There is an error in the paging of vol. i. of 

 this edition. After paging regularly to 263. the 

 numbering recommences with 238., and goes on 

 regularly from thence to p. 286., the end of the 

 volume." 



William J. Thoms. 



"think of me," "the GARDEN OP FLOEENCE," 

 AND JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS. 



(2'"i S. ii. 109.219.) 



The questions asked, and the vague answers 

 given, suggest that it may be well to say a few 

 words on this subject, though I must write from 

 a memory which is not altogether to be relied on. 

 Anonymous publications of the last century per- 

 plex and trouble us now ; and when editors and 

 contributors are quoting, not "2"'^_S.," but "22"'' 

 S.," (about which time, as I take it, your useful 

 little publication will be in its greenhood and 

 glory,) a few contemporary words may have 

 value. 



Mr. Carrington is no doubt correct, that the 

 lines in question appeared in The Garden of Flo- 

 rence, written, according to the title-page, by 

 John Hamilton, but in truth by John Hamilton 

 Reynolds. 



J. H. Reynolds was a man of genius, who 

 wanted the devoted purpose and the sustaining 

 power which are requisite to its development; 

 and the world, its necessities and its pleasures, 

 led him astray from literature. He was, if I 

 mistake not, born at Shrewsbury ; but his family 

 must have soon removed to London, as he finished 

 his education at St. Paul's School. His father 

 was subsequently writing-master at Christ's Hos- 

 pital. Reynolds had an early struggle. He was 

 first a clerk in The Amicable Insurance Office, 

 then articled to an attorney, and as an attorney 

 he practised for many years, but not with much 

 success. Eventually he accepted the office of 



